World of Gormiti: The mysteries of the Final Evolution series, part 1: The People of the Earth

There are a few irregularities, oddities, curiosities - call them what you will! - sorrounding the Final Evolution series. One of them is the mystery that is 'The People of the Earth'.

It was clear from the get go that there was some kind of trouble with these quite awesome looking black/grey/fluorescent green versions of the Energhia sculpts - for one, they werent pictured in the Final Evolution brochure (neither the newsstand brochure nor the one for normal retail). Only grey silhuets of the characters were shown along with an odd message.

From the Final Evolution brochure. Only greyish silhouets for the People of the Earth??

Close up of that odd little text box. Translates to: "The new heroes will be coming soon!" But ... ehh? Why not like NOW? Considering the series HAD already been released.

Definetely something fishy with these People of the Earth. Maybe they werent ready for release who knows? In my home country, Denmark, the People of the Earth were never released. The Final Evolution series consisted of only 11 different tribes instead of 13 tribes in the Italian release (see blind bag comparion below)

In Denmark, and I'm guessing a lot of other countries outside of Italy, we got only 11 tribes. People of the Earth and People of the Lava were forbidden fruit.

But back to those ghostly grey silhuettes ... Were the People of the Earth ever sold? Did they even EXIST??? Yes, definetely, just relax. If you look at where they pop up on ebay from time to time, they were sold in Italy, Spain, probably Greece and definetely the US. But, oddly (and now it gets even more confusing), it's mostly the characters Gheos, Talps, Gravitus and Trematerra that surface. The remaining three (Schienacciaio, Lo Scovanascondigli and Furiacieca) seem a lot scarcer.

Just calm down... they are right here, all seven of them. They DO exist.

These 'rare three' mostly pop up in the US, where they (and the three others, except Gheos) were sold in packages of two (with one Final Evolution character and one Energheia), but not with the correct cards, instead they had the normal Energheia Cards, showing the character in its boring ole yellow war paint.

A Picture of the American two pack. If you look close you can see the 'incorrect' Energheia card behind Gravitus.

Picture borrowed from an American ebay seller. Energheia Cards were apparently included for ALL the Final Evolution Gormitis on the US market. Why ...? Who knows. All part of the mystery.

I aquired all seven characters a couple of years ago, but only the cards for Gheos, Talps, Gravitus and Trematerra. If the 'rare three' are ... eh, rare ... the cards even more so. For a long time I didn't beleive they existed but then one day, bam! Found 'em on ebay, from an Italian seller.

Let me proudly present the magnificent seven ...